HP Pavilion LapTop, AMD Turion 64 cpu
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
wolfgang+gnus200604 at dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com
Thu Apr 13 05:07:20 UTC 2006
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> writes:
> On Monday 10 April 2006 00:21, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> writes:
>>> I just bought this thing, and have spent the evening doing a little
>>> housecleaning and exploring using the deafult XP Home edition OS
>>> thats on it, and trying to get used to the 'mouse' tablet as a
>>> navigator tool and have a few questions. And please excuse me but
>>> this is the first 'windoze' machine I've ever bought.
>>
>>I just did the same thing with a different HP Turion-based laptop
>>(Compaq v5000z). The steps I took were:
>>
>>1) boot the stock os and run the defragmention tool.
>>2) download the "gpartd" iso and burn onto cd/dvd.
>
> I got this far, downloading and burning the "System_Rescue_disk", which
> contains a progam called run_qtparted on it.
I used something that called itself "GPartd LiveCD". I wish I'd kept
better notes of where I found it. It was the third day of dead-end
experimentation and I had stopped keeping exact track of what I was
doing.
>>3) boot the gpartd dvd and reduce the first partition size to
>> something much lower.
> Booted ok, ran run_qtparted on a 1024x768 screen, and resized /dev/hda1
> down to about 25GB. Unforch, regardless of the size I leave /dev/hda1,
> about 5 seconds after clicking OK, to (I assume) commit the changes to
> the drive, it comes back with this message in a box:
>
> "Filesystem check failed! Totally 1 cluster accounting mismatches."
I forgot about that error. Yes, I got it too and simply let
ms-windows repair it. It was called chkdsk (or dskchk???) or
something like that from a system pull-down menu. After selecting it,
it failed because the FS was live and it needed a reboot so that it
could check things on the way up before the FS was mounted. After
that reboot it played with the disk a while and then it was all fine.
-wolfgang
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